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Show " PLATFORM HAS ECONOMIC BASE PROGRESSIVE PARTY HOLDS ROUSING MEETINGAT CLEVELAND, CLEVE-LAND, OHIO Support to Be Pledged to La Follette as Leader Though Not As Can. didate of a Third Party Cleveland. ( . A platform of econ. omic reform calling f'T further farm jnid and greater recognition of the claims of labor has been drawn for adoption by the progrc-sive convention conven-tion which July 4 tli launched its counter campaign against the two major political panics. I The convention of lo'l'O dob-gales representing progressive groups in every state, plans. it Is b-arne.l to permit Senator Koln-rt M. l.a Follette, Its candidate, a free n in in bis race against the I'emocrati.- and Republican Repub-lican candidates. Leaders guide I by his wishes plan merely to endorse him whole heart, edly as an in-b p. nib nt and not as him up as a distinct "third party'' candidate the I'mt.-d Press is au-thoritlvelv au-thoritlvelv informed. A telegram asking l.a folio; ;. to ex pros his wish in an o;v n letter for reading before ihe convention w. s forwarded to him in Washington by William II. Johnston, ma- !iit)i:.i inion leader and chairman of tlie - onv i-mlnn. Johnston ib-li'-ored bis kejn..;.-s kejn..;.-s h at the op. n ng S---I -n. The K. K. K. Isme. vv h split tl:-I tl:-I ii-nio. rat ie conv-n'ion will not ee-i be mentioned and the entire plat'orr.i will l al evlusi-. .':- with a demand for e-oi;oii;;e r e f r ru a ; lo a. The program cf b-.i.-l: ti-n for which ih,. j,-,-., ;i , , f.,:! -,t In t1 e Ui-l congress. wi; bo emb.-.'.iel la the declaration of prim iph s. It wi'l ; almost completely coltv I lo v;ta th-' ' platform offered .y I'.'pr.-s.-nta'iv . i Coop. r. of Wison-in. !t 4 :,,, mine:. I'y report-, 1 to l;e;,u'-l . all i oil -. . IJ I I 01 here 111 Julio. William Alh-ll Co ;, r. the V. i - -,-ll. sia i-i'ii:----ni,in vvloi -r, - n . -1 the l.a 1 ullette SUb-titll!,' plalf i'IU at t'.e 1,'epulillca n '' ui v en: ion and w a roundly bia i. was as'o-d to appe ir before the pro. re; si vo I'ntivi n'i.in. |